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[News]

The internet domain registrar and web hosting company is making it easier to search for and register available emoji-based domains. On Friday, the company launched a search engine for emoji domains. People can visit the site on their phones, type in a string of emoji and see if the domain is available.

As more of the world increasingly uses the internet on phones and other mobile devices, a flood of emoji-based domains seems inevitable. Heck, even the Touch Bar on Apple's new MacBook Pro will let you type in emoji, something that's difficult to do with a traditional computer keyboard...

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[ZapNano]

Read, spelling and writting are the most fundamental tools. Imagine putting emoji symbol everywhere as a name. There will be a huge of literacy problem...because they are just relying on pictures and other imaginative images.

 

[HotKey]

Read, spelling and writting are the most fundamental tools. Imagine putting emoji symbol everywhere as a name. There will a huge of literary problem...

10 years ago if someone told me teachers would no longer be using chalkboards, kids would no longer be using book, but iPads, in school, I would told them to go to hell.

 

[CJ6]

Read, spelling and writting are the most fundamental tools. Imagine putting emoji symbol everywhere as a name. There will a huge of literary problem...

Lmfao <-- As you see here, times are changing though. 15 years ago, I wouldn't have ever used that phrase. Now it's well known.

 

[ZapNano]

Lmfao. <-- As you see here, times are changing though. 15 years ago, I wouldn't have ever used that phrase. Now it's well known.

Yes and yes, everything is going to be welcome as well known. Imagine using these kind of communications when you go to court. Your answers to the judge is like these "LOL" "LMFAO" etc.
When a judge ask you a question, and it requires an answers such as Yes, yah, yap, nah. And your answer was "Yah" do you think the judge will take this anwer?

 

[nomen]

A brief history of emoji domains:

• 1995: ☃.com
  With incredible foresight, some random dude named Bob registered this domain back before the dotcom registry imposed their draconian crackdown on emoji domains. It is not for sale. I asked.

(https://xn--qeiaa.ws/#tlds)

So someone owns a snow man emoji .COM. That is something else.

 

[ZapNano]

A brief history of emoji domains:

• 1995: ☃.com
  With incredible foresight, some random dude named Bob registered this domain back before the dotcom registry imposed their draconian crackdown on emoji domains. It is not for sale. I asked.

(https://xn--qeiaa.ws/#tlds)

So someone owns a snow man emoji .COM. That is something else.

Having this type of name for your company; it creates confusion and ZERO seriousness.

 

[nomen]

Having this type of name for your company; it creates confusion and ZERO seriousness.

A lot of money is made in the ridiculousness industry. Nowadays, probably most money...

 

[HotKey]

"All of the big name top level domains (.com, .org, .co.uk) only allow Latin characters in their domain names.

“Top level domains choose to do this to try and prevent phishing attacks on users,” explained Josh Farrant, a software developer and technology blogger who recently secured the domain .ws.

“Since, for example, there are several different characters which all look like a letter 'a', a malicious website could easily impersonate a genuine site by using one of these characters to try and trick users into giving them their sensitive information,” Farrant told me. To prevent this, top tier domains just flat out refuse non-Latin characters."

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-want-that-hair-flip-girl

Yeah, a few bad apples and the whole bunch is ruined. It's too bad. You know, this kind of protection might make sense for alphabetical or numerical-type non-Latin characters. But how anyone could confuse an emoji for a letter is beyond me.

 

[ZapNano]

10 years ago if someone told me teachers would no longer be using chalkboards, kids would no longer be using book, but iPads, in school, I would told them to go to hell.

Yes, technology has changed since; and it's true you can get your education via everywhere and via technolgy. Classroom learning will never going to be deleted; specially for kids and teen. And colleges still used class room learning, this because there is some reason for this. Human to human classroom interaction, I found it helpful. Smart Professors still meet students in the class room.

This is very coincidence; ViaDigitalEd= Via Digital education is another way of learning.

 

[ZapNano]

Yeah, a few bad apples and the whole bunch is ruined. It's too bad. You know, this kind of protection might make sense for alphabetical or numerical-type non-Latin characters. But how anyone could confuse an emoji for a letter is beyond me.

Emoji symbols and letters are 2 different animals. Pictures can represent many things.
When you answers a school examination, your answers will be these ?

 

[CJ6]

I need the Chinese to jump on the band wagon. Then everyone will want one.

 

[BrandChimp]

Can't belive 90's emoticons are a trend in 2016...


And this create confusion....

"It worked for me. The actual url is www.emoticoke.com but you can put in a number of different emotis "
"OMG this is sooo dumb. The only place that needs emoji is chat- noting more, nothing less. Even if they're trying to be creative and funny- this is completely dumb and stupid."
"
How are you supposed to do this on a computer without emojis
"

 

[ZapNano]

Can't belive 90's emoticons are a trend in 2016...


And this create confusion....

"It worked for me. The actual url is www.emoticoke.com but you can put in a number of different emotis "
"OMG this is sooo dumb. The only place that needs emoji is chat- noting more, nothing less. Even if they're trying to be creative and funny- this is completely dumb and stupid."
"
How are you supposed to do this on a computer without emojis
"

It looks very happy; and entertaining. Nothing more.

 

[CJ6]

It looks very happy; and entertaining. Nothing more.

Do you need a ⚘?

 

[ZapNano]

Do you need a ⚘?

Flowers moves your heart; but this moves your bills.

 

[deez007]

I picked up a couple...just in case. I am a gambling man, of course.

Yeah dude for sure....I'm gonna grab a few as well.

 

[wot]

A brief history of emoji domains:

• 1995: ☃.com
  With incredible foresight, some random dude named Bob registered this domain back before the dotcom registry imposed their draconian crackdown on emoji domains. It is not for sale. I asked.

(https://xn--qeiaa.ws/#tlds)

So someone owns a snow man emoji .COM. That is something else.

Yes, a domain that will never resolve.Again, bon't waste your money.

 

[CJ6]

Yes, a domain that will never resolve.Again, bon't waste your money.

That domain did resolve when I tried it, btw.

 

[CJ6]

Someone has already made a business out of it (and I'm jealous, although I don't know if they are successful).
http://www.emojiurl.com/

 

[E-Promote]

Emojis are doomed for failure. Why? Because they are annoying as F.
BTW, CNET will soon "take over" the internet.